Paper-guide and envelope-holder



E. JOHNSON. PAPER GUIDE AND ENVELOPE HOLDER.

(No Model.)

Patented Aug-12, 1890.

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ELLERY JOHNSON, OF CINCINNATI, OHIO.

PAPER-GUIDE AND ENVELOPE-HOLDER.

- SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 433,944, dated August 12, 1890.

Application filed May 8, 1889. Serial No. 310,073. (No model.) 4

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ELLERY JOHNSON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Cincinnati, in the county of Hamilton and State of Ohio, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Paper-Guides and Envelope- Holders,of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates topaper-guides and envelope-holders, and is designed for attachment to the Remington and similarly-constructed type-writers. Its objects are to permit the operator to secure the paper or envelope between the platen and the guide without raising the carriage from the machine, and also to permit the operator to adjust the guide so as to hold envelopes and similar stiif substances in close contact with the platen at the point where the type strike. These objects are attained by the device illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 represents avertical cross-section of a type-writer carriage, showing my device in position ready for operation. Fig. 2 represents a vertical cross-section of my device, and illustrates the manner of construction. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the same. Fig. 4 is a side elevation of a modified form of my device.

Similar reference-letters indicate like parts throughout the various views.

A represents the rubber platen, on the under side of which the paper rests as the type strike it.

B represents the feed-roller at the back of the carriage, and O the usual sheet-metal rest or guide over which the paper first passes as it is fed to the machine.

D is a small rod running across the carriage parallel with the platen-cylinder, and to which the paper-guide is attached, being, the same to which the paper-guides heretofore in use were attached.

E represents a piece of paper partially inserted.

As the paper is inserted,when it has reached the position shown in Fig. 1, it is necessary, with the guides heretofore in use, for the operator to raise the carriage and place the paper .beneath the guide, thus consuming considerable time and frequently crumpling or tearing the paper. All this is avoided by my device, as hereinafter shown.

F is a piece of spring sheet metal, which is bent around the rod D and firmly held in an upright position by a small bolt f and thumb-nut f The bolt is riveted or.soldered at its head to one end of the piece F and passes through a small hole in the other end. The end of piece F nearest the platen A is much shorter than the other, and to this end is hinged another piece of spring metal G, which has at its upper end a slot g. H, the guide proper, is also of light spring sheet metal, and is attached to piece G by a bolt h, passing through slot g and secured on the upper side by a small nut 71/, thus permitting the operator to adjust the lower end of guide H nearer to or farther from the point where the type strike the paper. The bolt 71. is 7c made long enough so that its outer end passes through a slot I in the upper end of piece F, and is curved so as to pass through slot I at right angles to it. Bolt h is held in place in slotI by a small nut j 011 one side and thumb- 75 nut J on the other, leaving it sufliciently loose .to play up and down in the slot as the device is operated.

The operation of my device is as follows: When the paper E has reached the position shown in Fig. 1, the longer arm of piece F is pressed by the thumb or finger of the left hand until the upper end is sprung toward the platen A. This also, by means of the bolt h, presses arm G and guide H until the respective parts assume the position shown in dotted line, Fig. 1. The paper is then fed forward with the right hand until the paper comes in between the guide and the platen, when the arm F is released and springs back 9c to position, bringing the guide back to the position shown in full line. When it is desired to address envelopes or to use other paper which does not readily adapt itself to the form of the platen, the nut h is loosened and the guide 11 is brought down, as seen in Fig. 2, which brings the lower end of guide H as near as practicable to the place where the type strike the platen. The nut h" is then tightened, holding the pieces H and G firmly to- I00 gether, when by means of the nuts J j and bolt h the arm G is brought closer to arm F,

which, it will be seen, tends to press the lower end of guide H closer to the platen, and thereby holding the paper at the point where the type strike firmly against the platen.

In the modification shown in Fig. 4: the shorter end of piece F is allowed to rest against and support the longer end, the piece being held in an upright position in the usual manner by boltfand nut f. The piece G is omitted and the guide H is attached instead directly to the piece F. The piece F is slotted at I, as in the form above described, so as to permit the adjustment of the lower end of guide 11 nearer to or farther from the point Where the type strike.

IVhat I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. The combination of the spring metal arm F, piece G hinged thereto, guide H, bolt 71, and nuts h j J, all arranged to operate as and for the purpose specified.

2. The combination, in a paper-guide, of spring-arm F, held securely in an upright position on rod D, with a guide-piece II connected thereto, said guide being constructed and designed to be sprung away from the face of the platen as the paper is first fed to the machine, thus enabling the operator to get the paper between the guide and platen Without raising the carriage.

3. In a paper-guide, the combination of the spring-arm F, held in an upright position by bolt f and nut f, and having slot I, arm G hinged thereto and slotted atg, with guide H firmly attached to said arm G by bolt h and nut h, and loosely secured to arm F by said bolt h and nuts j and J substantially as specified.

ELLERY JOHNSON. \Vitnesses:

H. F. DERSHEM, II. M. DERSHEM. 

